One of the most interesting phenomenons to come from the body positivity and recovery movements online is the urge to move from tribe member to coach. If I go into the health coaching groups that I and my coaching friends started ages ago, you’ll now see them swollen...

TL;DR: Go listen to this week’s podcast with Andrea LaMarre! I’m not here to get into an argument over whether a lack of feminism in our society causes eating disorders…but I am here to argue this: A lack of feminism in our society makes it harder for us to...

TL;DR: Go listen to this week’s podcast with Louise O’Neill! In today’s podcast, my guest, Louise O’Neill, tells the story of her time working for Elle magazine. She recounts a coworker explaining why they rarely show diverse bodies—race, size, ability, etc— on their...

TL;DR: Go listen to today’s podcast with Kat Whitfield! In order to sell you wrinkle cream, you first must be aware that wrinkles are bad. In order to get you to buy a diet pill, you have to be sufficiently unhappy with your body to choose to lose weight in your...

Body positivity isn’t easy. We’re bombarded, all day, everyday, with advertisements and images that make us feel insecure, ashamed, and unhappy about our bodies. We’re told that we have to look a certain way in order to even have worth as a human being in our society....

I know it’s Thanksgiving week and you’re probably hoping for tips and tricks for surviving the holiday. But I’ve done that before, and there are going to be a million other people writing posts in this same vein all week. Today, I want to talk about...